« On the genealogy of environmental protection and its links with ‘protection’ as native policy: Fenneke Sysling, ‘”Protecting the Primitive Natives”: Indigenous People as Endangered Species in the Early Nature Protection Movement, 1900-1940’, Environment and History, 21, 3, 2015, pp. 381-399
On primitivism and colonialism and settler colonialism (and on the transition from a denial of coevalness to ‘co-modernity’): Ruth B. Phillips, ‘Aesthetic Primitivism Revisited: The Global Diaspora of “Primitive Art” and the Rise of Indigenous Modernisms’, Journal of Art Historiography, 2015 »

On Nazi settler colonial Eastern Europe and its human materials: Geraldien von Frijtag Drabbe Künzel, Hitler’s Brudervolk: The Dutch and the Colonization of Occupied Eastern Europe, 1939-1945, Routledge, 2015

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Description: This is the first academic book on Dutch colonial aspirations and initiatives during WWII. Between the summers of 1941 and 1944, some 5,500 Dutch men and women left their occupied homeland to find employment in the so-called German Occupied Eastern Territories: Belarus, the Baltic countries and parts of Ukraine. This was the area designated for colonization by Germanic people. It was also the stage of the “Holocaust by Bullets,” a centrally coordinated policy of exploitation and oppression and a ruthless anti-partisan war. This book seeks to answer why the Dutch decided to go there, how their recruitment, transfer and stay were organized, and how they reacted to this scene of genocidal violence. It is a close-up study of racial monomania, of empire-building on the old continent and of collaboration in Nazi-occupied Europe.


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